Anyone else getting tired of the Target commercial?

Alright, 1 or 2 ads here and there are fine. But hearing that you guys are "on the world stage riding for target, is amazing." every time i want to watch a video is making me want to die. Free...... Skiing. What do you guys think?

Of course, it is the Target commercial (and others) that pay for this lovely little online playground we all enjoy so much. That said, running a :15 spot eon every single video (some of which are actually shorter than the commercial itself) may be counter productive from the marketer's standpoint.

Limiting the number of times each user is exposed to the creative can actually increase the amount of time those users spend watching the creative itself. In other words, if I were running the bingo here (which I am not) I might try and sacrifice the total number of views to try and get people to watch the thing longer and not click away or tone out.

That is ESPECIALLY important when the creative itself is pretty cool, which that ad is. Also, making sure the user is engaged through the entire ad makes a call to action at the end (such as a click through) much more effective.

It would be really interesting to see how much Target's ROI on the ad changed if NS limited the number of times it runs and charged a bit more for each one.

I turned on adblock because of this. Will turn it back off after the Olympics or if that problem is fixed.

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this, as much as ads suck. this is a quote right from mousseau in a site discussion thread:

"We don't stop anyone from using adblock applications, but just know that you're basically taking potential dollars out of our pockets -- which trickles down to our members through the various content creator initiatives.

Right now, we lose about 75k from people using adblock. Imagine what we could do with that 75k if we poured it in the producer, photographer, and journalist programs? Now THAT would be cool."

uhhh this is the "more money for freeskiing from being in the Olympics" that everyone's been talking about for yrs. I strongly suggest you get used to these. Also, I heard everytime you click on a Target banner ad Bishop gets a beer

I think this ad's good for our sport.. if you watch the full video, you see that target basicallly lets dumont and torin describe what freeskiing is, giving it tons of exposure as target is a big brand

"For me, my family, my friends and skiing, that is for me. That's my life. The joy I get from skiing, that's worth dying for." - CR Johnson

Not all of us are blessed with the joy of a high speed internet connection. So that 15 second add sometimes turns into over a minute wait. And for some reason adds load about 100x slower than the actual video I'm trying to watch.

Also Target + Freeskiing = Shaun White Clothing line? Did I get it right?

Annoying as hell because we all already know what's up, those ads should run to non skiers.
I give them credit though for being the only brand telling our story outside the indudstry creating this 2min. vid, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckVZv_I33U&feature=youtu.be
Just wish people would call it what it is.... SKIING